AMD Ryzen Processors Drop in Price Significantly

If you browse around a little you'll noticed that the sales prices of the Ryzen 7 1800X, 1700X and 1700 have dropped by a fair amount, roughly 12% on average.

If you focus your searches on USA based Newegg and Amazon you will see that the Ryzen 7 1800X was introduced at 499 USD, you now can get is for 439 USD. The 1700X dropped 50 bucks from 399 towards 349 USD. And that brilliant little gem of a 1700 dropped 30 bucks from 329 USD towards 299 USD.

These might be simple promotions from the etails, or it is possible (yet rather unlikely) that AMD is clearing the upper ranges with Threadripper in mind. Then again, since all procs are unlocked, people simply purchase the cheapest model like the 1600 and 1700 non-X models and tweak them a little. The new procs are even more competitive then they where. And there is a second thought to keep in mind, AMD might be lowering prices with the Kaby lake X procs release in mind (Core i7-7740X and i5-7640X).

Okay, there also a fourth and actually the most plausible / likely one, individual retailers can sell products at whatever price they want and as much or as little margin they need to make. We have not seen this price drop in the EU, so likely these drops are the retailers battling with each other offering the best prices.

From AMD:

Following the recent launches of seven AMD Ryzen desktop processors, including AMD Ryzen™ 7 and AMD Ryzen™ 5, designed to bring innovation and competition back to the full spectrum of premium PC markets, AMD outlined the plan for continued momentum for Ryzen at Computex 2017 with the announcement of Ryzen™ Threadripper™.

We have noted some speculative articles appearing commenting on AMD's pricing following Computex and would like to reiterate that Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 pricing remains unchanged. Any promotional deals or special pricing on Ryzen processors is partner/retailer driven within their business.

#5438465 Posted on: 06/02/2017 11:00 AM
They cut the prices because their IPC is still low and with the memory issues it's a mess.

I have the R7 1700 with 8 gb ram at 2660 Mhz (@ 1.43v while on Intel it was at 1.2v WTF) and of course i cannot reach 2660 Mhz with two sticks because it's not stable.

I had a system for my brother with a i3 and i upgraded to a i5 6500 with the other 8 gb ram @2133 Mhz left from the Ryzen system and i noticed that he has the same (or better) performance in compressing (7zip) a mp4 file!
WFT why? 8 cores with 15 threads (i left one free but when i get home i will try with all 16) is slower or equal to 4 core and 4 threads!
I gave him a 1.28 Gb mp4 and he did it in 46 seconds, i can't wait to get home to test it on thr Ryzen with 16 theads.

@BLEH!: wait for reviews for threadripper first.

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#5438472 Posted on: 06/02/2017 11:15 AM
Still eyeing down that 1600 if it drops in price I may have to upgrade sooner than I wanted to.

Sarsar make sure u have the latest bios alot of people are getting 3200mhz ram now

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#5438473 Posted on: 06/02/2017 11:18 AM
They cut the prices because their IPC is still low and with the memory issues it's a mess.

I have the R7 1700 with 8 gb ram at 2660 Mhz (@ 1.43v while on Intel it was at 1.2v WTF) and of course i cannot reach 2660 Mhz with two sticks because it's not stable.

I had a system for my brother with a i3 and i upgraded to a i5 6500 with the other 8 gb ram @2133 Mhz left from the Ryzen system and i noticed that he has the same (or better) performance in compressing (7zip) a mp4 file!
WFT why? 8 cores with 15 threads (i left one free but when i get home i will try with all 16) is slower or equal to 4 core and 4 threads!
I gave him a 1.28 Gb mp4 and he did it in 46 seconds, i can't wait to get home to test it on thr Ryzen with 16 theads.

@BLEH!: wait for reviews for threadripper first.
Did you try that memory with AGESA 1006 update?
I believe at 2660 memory should be at 1.35V, 1.2 is out of spec.

Also, you seem not to remember pains Intel had with x99 and memory where it took more than a year to get higher clocks. Ryzen is here for 3 months and some memory kits can already reach 4GHz.

As for encoding speed that really depends on the tool you use, if it's not optimized for more cores and is optimized for Intel, it will be faster on Intel CPUs.

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#5438481 Posted on: 06/02/2017 11:41 AM
I´ve just looked up and Ryzen as also dropped here in Portugal. The question is if this is a normal price adjustment or if this is because Ryzen isn´t selling as good as AMD wanted. I hope it´s the first.

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#5438482 Posted on: 06/02/2017 11:45 AM
The ram is Corsair @ 2400 Mhz, on the older i5 6600k with Asus Z170 it was working @ 2666 Mhz with 1.2v without any issues.

The Agesa 1.006 came out today for my motherboard (beta bios). I will flash it tonight.
I was using winrar but all the reviews tested compression with 7zip and Ryzen was far ahead of the i7 7700k so i use 7zip now but i cannot see a big difference between Ryzen and Skylake. Between winrar and 7zip yes, 7zip is much faster.

Things must be going super good for AMD to lower prices mere 2 months after release.

Though we all do know what this usually means.

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#5438485 Posted on: 06/02/2017 11:55 AM
The ram is Corsair @ 2400 Mhz, on the older i5 6600k with Asus Z170 it was working @ 2666 Mhz with 1.2v without any issues.

The Agesa 1.006 came out today for my motherboard (beta bios). I will flash it tonight.
I was using winrar but all the reviews tested compression with 7zip and Ryzen was far ahead of the i7 7700k so i use 7zip now but i cannot see a big difference between Ryzen and Skylake. Between winrar and 7zip yes, 7zip is much faster.
I have the 1700 stock clock and mobo thats a msi b350 tomahawk i flashed the newest beta bios and i got my ram to 3200 @ 1.35v timings at 16-18-18-18-36
i can drop it to 2933 at 14-16-16-16-36,the ram i have is CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2A2133C13,i got it when it first came out so my ram was stuck at 2666 every bios but the new beta bios shocked me when i started testing the ram higher.

Things must be going super good for AMD to lower prices mere 2 months after release.

Though we all do know what this usually means.

Yep they took the money for a bit on their 8 cores while the prepared their HEDT platform. The lowest priced Threadripper will be $499 (I said a month or so ago that they needed to lower the R7 prices because the first Threadripper needed to come in at $499).

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#5438496 Posted on: 06/02/2017 12:26 PM

Yep they took the money for a bit on their 8 cores while the prepared their HEDT platform. The lowest priced Threadripper will be $499 (I said a month or so ago that they needed to lower the R7 prices because the first Threadripper needed to come in at $499).

The X399 mobos will be significantly more expensive than the X370 ones, I'd say, meaning the price of the CPU alone is only a part of the story. But of course it would look dubious if 1800X was more expensive than the cheapest Threadripper, even if nobody could build the whole Threadripped machine for a lower price.

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#5438499 Posted on: 06/02/2017 12:32 PM

The X399 mobos will be significantly more expensive than the X370 ones, I'd say, meaning the price of the CPU alone is only a part of the story. But of course it would look dubious if 1800X was more expensive than the cheapest Threadripper, even if nobody could build the whole Threadripped machine for a lower price.

This is true. I have a feeling that x399 will on average be more expensive than x299 on motherboard. This is not confirmed just a feeling I have (I have been fairly spot on with prices though in the past).